Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
New research presented at the EPSC – DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki indicates that the nearest technological civilization in the Milky Way could be about 33,000 light years from Earth, and that such a society would need to have survived at least 280,000 years – potentially millions – to coexist with us in time.
Dr Manuel Scherf and Professor Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Academy of Scie